The queens of American society
A 1867 New York collection of biographies of notable American women, written by Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet and published by C. Scribner & Company for a general reading public. The pictures are steel-engraved oval portraits of women in dated hairstyles and dress, each set on a plain page with a caption beneath, offering a designer references for period portraiture, oval vignette framing, and understated engraved tonal modelling.
